flooding in decades the damage estimates of which will be astronomical most importantly the aftermath of the hurricane laid bare the poor state of infrastructure here in the u.s. levees breaking and entire neighborhoods looking like they just got air rated now i know you can argue that even the best infrastructure in the world is no match to the wrath of mother nature but don't think that we have a better shot at preventing this kind of damage if we actually invested money into making american infrastructure the greatest it can be you may say hey we're broke we're in debt but if over how far tax dollars were being squandered by the military industrial complex we might have a dollar to invest in underground power lines or restarting levees properly think about this and the minute of television that you just watched the pentagon just blew a million two hundred seventy six thousand four hundred and forty five dollars yeah let's break the set. of.

happy all the way and guys today the favorite holiday for a lot of people love dressing up in epic costumes are watching late night horror films but perhaps the best excuse of all is having all the candy in the world but what if i told you that pretty much all the whole the when candy you're consuming is contaminated or you still eat it you see manufacturers have been capitalizing on a little something called genetically modified foods and this whole when you can find them infiltrating your candy stash and reese's kit kat twix snickers and milky way the list goes on and on so what you're can you might look and taste good what's in it is not good just take a look at the ingredients on the wrapper it says sugar sugar beets high fructose corn syrup corn starch so we've been oil canola oil just to name a few you're buying a g.m.o. machine a machine created to benefit the mega companies who claim that g.m. those are needed to produce products in mass quantities with longer shelf life even

if it's all the expense of your health in a recent study scientists tested g.m. owes on the rats for two years and found that they develop shy and tumors along with a whole host of other health problems but here's the scariest part these toxins aren't just in prepackaged candy they're actually more food than we can count in fact seventy percent of grocery store products contain them and about seventy percent zero percent is labeled g m o's inside that's why activists in california are forging ahead with prop thirty seven proposition that would force companies to clearly label that their food contains g.m.o. those after all americans behind every other industrialized country that is either banned them or at least labeled them talk about the likelihood of prop thirty seven passing in the g.m.o. agenda i'm joined by jeffrey smith executive director of the institute for responsible technology author of many books including the best selling seeds of

deception exposing industry and government lies about the safety of the gin. we engineered foods your eating jeffrey thanks so much for coming on great to be here so jeffrey a business roundtable just released a new poll that showed prop thirty seven as losing i mean i thought i had so much momentum at the beginning clearly in the lead how is it possible that nationwide polls show ninety percent of americans supporting g.m.o. labeling but then this new poll saying that only thirty percent of california residents support this measure. well the problem is that the biotech industry is trying to confuse voters by telling them that labeling is confusing they're spending more money than ever spend on labeling telling people that labeling is too expensive they're pretending that the labeling bill has been created by trial lawyers to force lawsuits and that it's going to be bad for farmers and small businesses and it's going to cost a huge amount of money for california bureaucracy in reality all of these are

manufactured lies and this is very simply a right to new orleans will be affixed to a package indicating whether a product is genetically engineer. and some of the opponents of prop thirty seven jeffrey said that the food choices will decrease and prices will increase our how do you respond to that. there are sixty one countries that have labeling requirements for genetically engineered foods and not one has increased the cost of foods to consumers in fact the same companies that sell g m o's in the united states kraft nestle as hershey's have either labeled it overseas or removed it entirely at no cost to consumers if they wanted to thrust the entire cost of hiring an artist to place the actual label would cost about seventy three cents per person per year however the biotech industry claims that it's going to be four

hundred dollars per year and that it's going to cost the california government over a billion what in fact according to the california government it's at most two point seven cents per person so what they're doing is they're trying to scare people away from voting for their best self-interest sure i mean the cost to california and consequential are reading the actual bill it's very little and also i mean if these biotech companies have to incur a one time cost to repackage their foods and pass and if they're. pass all the cars on us that's just another reason to not support that jeffery but as we know i mean monsanto already threatened to sue vermont the state that tried the past labeling and then you have the lawsuits like of thousands of farmers that have sued monsanto here and the millions of brazilian farmers and brought in sued monsanto and the case was kind of dismissed i mean it seems like corporations are always coming out on top what legal recourse do we have if these if states themselves are getting threatened by monsanto it was

a shame that the the governor of vermont and the leaders in both in connecticut as well both refused to let the bills for labeling go through because of their fear of an expensive lawsuit three months santa and we've been tracking their influence all around the world i visited thirty four countries and the big space if we capture regulatory agencies and capture government administration in fact they captured the food and drug administration it was their former attorney michael taylor who was in charge of policy at the f.d.a. when the g m a policy create was created and he said no safety testing is needed no labeling is needed companies like monsanto who told us that these agent orange and d.d.t. were safe can determine on their own if g m o's are safe and put on the market without telling the f.d.a. or consumers and then michael taylor became months and as vice president and now he's back at the f.d.a. as u.s. food safety czar and the justification for not regulating jimbo's was based on

a sentence in the policy that was entirely false claiming that the agency wasn't aware of information showing that g m o's were different when in fact their own scientists uniformly agreed that g m o's were dangerous and needed testing this was the first level of deception and the they've been layering the deception since then didn't feed the world lower the use of agricultural chemicals and now in california they're layering deception on prop thirty seven yes sah. and you know all of these claims that they'll produce higher yields all these things i mean it really has proven not to be true jeffrey but let's get into your book seeds of deception you just talked about one layer of deception kind of the misinformation the revolving door that keeps these policies in place keeps people in the dark let's talk about the health effects what have you on covered i know that other countries do independent testing here we don't require these independent tests for g m o's talk about the dangers associated with that that has been proven. well last month as you

showed earlier in the introduction rats that were fed genetically modified corn had massive tumors early death and organ damage and not only those that were fed the genetically modified corn but even those that were drinking tiny amounts of round of herbicide three months santa and that is linked with the roundup ready crops in fact the most popular variety of crops that are genetically engineered are roundup ready designed not to die when sprayed with rounded herbicide so those they were drinking levels of herbicide in the drinking water that's considered safe in united states cause these massive tumors early death and organ damage i've been interviewing doctors who prescribe knowledgeable diets to their patients and interviewing the patients and it turns out people are recovering from a variety of disorders season disorders since they've got rid of genetically engineered foods they're getting rid of weight problems skin problems immune system problems digestive problems infertility diabetes etc now we because it's not

labeled in order to get rid of g m o's they have to create a strategy like fire danica or reduce process but we've also been interviewing farmers and veterinarians who take the livestock off of g m o's and they don't have these other co-factors it's simply replacing g.m. corn or soy with corners and we're seeing the same type of diseases and disorders improving in the livestock and the same disorders in diseases have been identified by the american academy of environmental medicine as afflicting the lab animals that are fed g.m.o. foods and in the same categories of diseases and disorders that are on the rise in the u.s. population since g m o's were introduced so the evidence is pretty strong that g m o's are a major factor in the rising health problems in the us population it does seem like we are sitting guinea pigs stafford you know and like you said the rise in cancer and diabetes and all these different diseases that are. kind of questionable like

how are these you know increasing at such a rapid rate does coincide with jim has been introduced in the food system but just to wrap it up i want to ask you what is the danger associated because i don't think a lot of people really grasp how monsanto's really you know patton in these season pretty much the food supply around the world what is the danger of having one company controlled patents for seeds. well first of all their stated goal according to their former consultant back in the one nine hundred ninety nine san francisco conference was to genetically engineer one hundred percent of all commercial seeds and patent them and to sell them with their associated chemicals now essentially what they want to do is replace nature eliminate the products of the billions of years of evolution and instead put in designer organisms with designer jeans designed for greater profit and control they've already demonstrated that they're kind of ruthless when they've taken over

a market they eliminate the availability of non genetically engineered seeds in many cases and in india for example the the cotton it's genetically engineered to produce its own insecticide it is linked to rashes and itching and farmers death in livestock and over two hundred thousand suicides in farmers that could not repay their very high interest loans when they borrowed money to pay for these wonder seeds falsely advertised by monsanto we've seen how one santos soused formers who want to save seeds and how they've tried to put seed cleaners out of business i talked to a former months and a scientist who told me that when they found it were hurt due to the mine didn't want santo's genetically modified corn rather than withdrawing the corn from approval process they changed the study and rewrote it to hide the evidence of problem it seems like that's what they. owe a lot jeffery is change these studies to their narrative thank you so much for

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never bought it used textbook but used goods at a yard sale shop on e-bay and that's probably everyone that i know well the us supreme court has taken on a case this president could make all the difference on how legal it is for you to buy used or form products without violating copyright laws it all begins with one man soup up curtseying a ph d. student from the university of southern california who resold it for in addition textbooks to american students for less than the us version cost the books publishers john wiley and sons won

a copyright lawsuit six hundred thousand dollars against him soup up however appealed to the case the u.s. supreme court drawing attention from groups like costco and e bay both of which claim that they would be severely affected by a ruling that could drastically change international commerce so let's break this down a bit and the u.s. laws such that once a seller sells a product the purchaser has the right to resell the product this is known as first sale doctrine i mean the product manufacturer only has control of the first sale of the product well that's pretty straightforward right well the case gets a little messy because the lower courts say that this rule doesn't apply if the goods are produced overseas this is why the supreme court's decision will be so important that the position is taken by the lower courts as upheld what would happen a textbook retailers and more broadly what would that mean for selling secondhand products on e-bay or even at a yard sale yes i think we can all agree that this guy was into some shady business

but by appealing to the supreme court this case has all the potential of becoming a dangerously slippery slope here sue pops lawyers argue that by allowing copyright holders like john wiley and sons to sue over the importation of second hand goods would give them an endless eternal downstream control over the sales and rentals and added that would actually give companies an incentive to outsource their manufacturing facilities keeping their costs down profits high and never having to worry about competing with foreign goods because copyright laws wouldn't allow an authorized importations of those goods. but what would happen if soup wins the case while american industries that rely heavily on copyright who are also supporting wiley say that film music publishers software developers would eventually suffer from being unable to block on all the rise imports they also add that lower courts have uniformly ruled in favor of copyright owners without any of the negative implications that supes lawyers have forecasted and while this may be true think

about why legislation like soap up was so unpopular there will always be pirating there will always be illegal downloading there were always be copyright infringement that's the nature of the internet the question here is how much power do we want to give up to the state to essentially control what would otherwise be a free market. just a few weeks ago twenty four year old leah lynn plant was imprisoned subpoenaed called the activist to appear in front of an investigative grand jury all on the grounds that she had inside knowledge of the alleged anarchistic perpetrators of the may day protests in portland but she refused to take a look at her story. on the morning july twenty fifth two thousand and twelve my life was turned upside down in a matter of hours f.b.i. agents from around washington oregon and joint terrorism task force agents from washington busted down the front door of my house with

a battering ram handcuffed my housemates and me at gunpoint and held us hostage in our back yard while they read us a search warrant and ransacked our home they said it was in connection to made a vandalism that occurred in seattle washington earlier this year. however we suspected that this was not really about broken windows this girl's never been charged or convicted with a crime and it soon became clear that indeed this wasn't about broken windows is about an assault on activism it was an assault on free speech so to talk about this case and the target of activism in general and i will potter journalist and author of green is the new read an insider's account of a social movement under seige thanks so much for coming on thanks for having me so real lynn was just released from prison but two of her friends are still held there under what charges are they being held well they were subpoenaed to appear before this federal grand jury and they refused to talk about their friends and about their politics and grand juries are kind of a legal vacuum where most rights just don't apply your first amendment and fifth

amendment rights and so they're being imprisoned in seattle right now until they agreed to cooperate and they vowed to not do so why was she released that's unclear right now and it's caused quite a bit of controversy and anarchist circles in the northwest and just in the activist movement in general there hasn't been a lot of communication about why she was released what the conditions were if she agreed to cooperate in any way and this is part of the danger of a grand jury and makes people suspicious when it fosters distrust absolutely and i know you like you said she's a fit with anarchist group how does that play a role in the case how does the energy isn't play a role and is this part of a larger assault on anarchism in general always saw immediately from some of the first search warrants by the joint terrorism task forces of the f.b.i. listed things like anti-government an anarchist literature now it's important to remember that grand juries have been used historically against dissident movements as a tool of oppression their use really in two ways one is as

a fishing expedition to learn about your friends and about your beliefs and then the second is to intimidate people into many of them by threatening to throw them into jail and intimidate the wider movement who's paying attention and this is really part of an ongoing effort not only against anarchists but against. a radical activism in this country in general yeah i mean we've seen time and time again in a post nine eleven world i'm sure like you said i mean it's been going on for decades really but it just seems escalated most of the world this legislation that allows a thirty to go in sees that raid homes these people's assets and then retroactively charge these people with things that they find i mean completely a legally in some cases they don't have to tell people that they raided their homes i mean really it's pre-crime arrests i mean what is this really doing to to stifle dissent to stifle activism and elaborate is really on the chilling effect of these these cases well i think that term is exactly the problem with all this it's not about broken windows as you said it's not about criminal activity the real danger of all this is the chill it's having on political activism and when you see people

in your community that are rounded up and joint terrorism task force raids with guns drawn about anarchists literature and then subpoenaed to a grand jury and after they refused to talk about their friends and talk about their politics they're thrown into jail that sends a message and this is an accident all these tactics are coordinated to instill that kind of fear and they've been done that way for decades in this country really is a chilling effect does stifle dissent well i wanted to talk about just the green is the new red obviously that that concept that phrase plays into kind of that communist red scare rhetoric when did you come to terms of the realization hey this is comparable to kind of that chilling effect of communism you know going on in the world that word terrorism and now kind of that crackdown on anyone affiliated with activism is now can be labeled a terrorist first started using that metaphor just because i thought it was kind of a cute title to compare what's going on to arrows that people know where

a black mark on u.s. history but the more you look into it there's a lot of strong comparisons not just between the red scare but between all dark periods in u.s. history where people are a silence because of their politics and we really see a pattern emerging. what's different about this pattern right now is the heavy influence of corporations against animal rights environmental activists seconds anti-war activists and now against the anarchist movement which with the rise of occupy has been increasingly under attack as well you know we've seen a lot of state repression you know squashing the camps really sending a message chilling message to a lot of activists will talk about the animal enterprise terrorism act i know that's the name of your research extensively project censored award you with your research on that what exactly did this legislation do because i don't think a lot of people really realize what it did i think the general public isn't aware and even prosecutors and the f.b.i. are confused about this legislation i mean the quick summary it was passed in two thousand and six it creates a new crime of expanded definition of

a crime targeting anyone who threatens the corporate profits of animal enterprise now supporters say this is so broad it can be used to target civil disobedience and according to f.b.i. documents that i've obtained through a colleague of mine that are on the green is the new red it shows the f.b.i. considered prosecuting undercover investigators who are investigating film factory farms as terrorists i mean that's the scope of this legislation so this is that the aguilar agag laws are kind of tacked on to this whole precursor of animal enterprise paradigm absolutely we're seeing really a progression and a continuum developing of all these tactics we see that the federal level with the new terrorism legislation that really makes the patriot act looked tame by comparison a lot of ways and then at the state level they're doing the same thing trying to criminalize anyone who has the nerve to expose what corporations are doing in factory farms and laboratories and aside from the fact that you know you're tacking on all these extra charges very serious charges that have much longer sentences

fines the defamation of activists like any step on in from the sparrow project to you know was charging the animal enterprise terrorism act and then was going to speak before some d.n.c. thing and fox news has this smear campaign against them convict. terrorist speaking and people latch on to that i mean what does it do to label activism as labeling it this really roaded term that we now is pretty much meaningless to just throw the word terrorism on there what we've seen is corporations know the power of that language and they've been exploiting it for decades now against activists who are threatening their profits and as time goes by they're becoming more and more reckless about using that terrorism eco terrorism rhetoric to target anyone who stands in their way the problem is you can't shake this label i mean when the government and corporations start using the same media campaigns press releases court documents it sticks with you and that's the danger here that even after for people who aren't sentenced to prison and for those that are or that are you can't

get rid of the label and what do we do well i mean these this legislation is already in place how do we scale back disagree just a violation of our civil liberties that is really as created in a post nine eleven world it's a really difficult question and to help answer that i've really turned to other areas where people have dealt with in some cases a lot worse and i think the first step is to be shining a light on this i think if more people were actually aware of what was going on they would be outraged i say that not only having faith in this. public information as a journalist but just as someone who's spoken about this issue met with people all over the country and one everyday folks who are not activists not anarchists not radicals find out about this they're pissed off and i think that says a lot about what potential we have to organize and to raise awareness about this absolutely i really think information is the key to getting people to realize hey this this isn't just about terrorism this is about your friends and family and just activists who are trying to spread information spread awareness thank you so much

will harder green is the new red everyone check it out really appreciate your time and show. if your ideology does not fit in the uniform box of conformity laid out by the establishment then you can and probably will be targeted. if you do something that threatens the status quo like the case of rhea lynn plant and countless others who have been charged under government legislation that targets activists in a post nine eleven world in a playoff that famous quote first they came for the muslims and i didn't speak out because i'm not a muslim and then they came for the anarchists and i didn't speak out because i'm not an anarchist next they'll come for you and me and there'll be no one left to speak for us.

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